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You’re developing a site in ExpressionEngine 2.0 and need a plugin that only has a 1.6.8 version. You could wait for the developer to update it, which could take months and might never happen. On the other hand if you’re willing to get your hands dirty you can try updating it yourself. We’ll tell you how, and it’s not as hard as you think!

This week we spotlight add-on developer Brandon Kelly and Navigant Consulting, a site he developed using ExpressionEngine.

Our “Spotlight” series of articles gives designers, developers, add-on creators, and just generally great members of the ExpressionEngine community a chance to talk about how they have used EE and its add-ons in their work.

Make use of a “structural” weblog/channel that contains only one entry, where each custom field controls some aspect of the site. Then give your users easy access to these controls by linking directly to the entry from a link at the top of your control panel.

Organizing ExpressionEngine add-ons used to be straightforward, but with the proliferation of EE developers hosting their code socially, new questions are raised about maintenance, support, and versions. Cloning and forking and tags, oh my!

ExpressionEngine and version control has always been a topic of interest to EE developers, but versioning an EE site can be tricky. This series of articles covers the basics of getting an EE site up and running under the Git version control system. In Part 1 I cover installing Git and setting up a local environment.

You can restrict access to an ExpressionEngine site under development with template access restrictions by User Group. But what if you need to test logged-in and logged-out status, and different member levels? We show you how to easily restrict your dev area and still test member-related conditionals on your templates with a Dev User Group and EE’s HTTP Authentication.

FieldFrame is a “framework for rapid development of Fieldtype extensions” for ExpressionEngine. We decided to see exactly what that means by creating a new jQuery Color Picker custom field extension based on FieldFrame, and explain how it was done.